Avatar Breaks Animation

Hi,
I have a character I have rigged in Maya using the HIK system. Everything looks great in Maya and everything looks great if I use "generic" on the import settings in Unity.

However, once I switch to "humanoid" and set up the avatar the animation breaks. Specifically the character is holding a prop (a guitar which is animated but not with a skeleton) and it is no longer in his hands after I get that check mark next to "configure..."

I can understand why this wouldn't re-target very well (though I haven't tried that yet) but I don't understand why it would break the animation that is baked into the skeleton. Is there some way I can adjust my avatar so it doesn't mess with the baked in animation on the skeleton at all? Or I guess the question is, what do I need to do so Unity will play nice with this guy?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Sorry I can't help but mecanim is terrible with props. There's quite a few prop-related issues posted in this forum. There's quite a possibility that Unity is just too broken in this regard to handle your file. Id recommend trying the generic animation type and failing that legacy should deliver.

 

Thanks for the response, AaronC!

I actually figured it out.
The guitar and its children were unchecked under "Masks/Transform" in the import settings. So I checked those boxes (along with "bake into pose" for all 3 root transforms and "Original" for "Based Upon (at start)" for the Y and XZ position) and BAM! Animation just like in Maya. (These settings need to be set for each animation, BTW)

Anyway, hope this helps somebody who might have a similar issue.